Gwen with Skarner
How to Synergize Gwen and Skarner
based on 229 Gwen with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Skarner
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Advice to Understand How Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Gwen Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Skarner helps Gwen perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gwen is an ally to Skarner, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Skarner helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played together with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Skarner.
Additionally, when Gwen plays with Skarner on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Skarner does a poor job of protecting Gwen during team fights.
Synergies between Gwen and Skarner
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Gwen that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. However, overall, Skarner is a great teammate for Gwen. By locking into the same team as Gwen, he improves their win rate by 3.0% to 51.1%. This signals that there is a very real synergy between Gwen and Skarner that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Gwen. That means Gwen players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Skarner allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Gwen and Skarner together, you may not be giving your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gwen to synergize with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Gwen and Skarner synergy build include Riftmaker, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Nashor's Tooth. When Gwen used at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Skarner than with most other common builds. In fact, Gwen boasted an average win rate of 51.1% when playing alongside Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.1% winrate overall.
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